Nicolaia grandiligulata (K. SCH.) VAL. n. nov — Amotnum K. SCH. 

 (1899) 308.— Phaeomeria K. SCH. (1904) 263. (Tab. 2). 



Distribution: 



Sumatra: Padang in mt. Singgalang, 1700 M. (BECCARI no. 303. K 

 SCHLM.) Padang in mt Talamau (Ophir) 1500 M. (BiiNNEMEIJER.) no. 830 

 „Flowers red, yellow above, bracts red, stem 5-6 M. high), [bid, G. Ta- 

 king, 2300 M. (BUNNEMEIJER 5429. „Infi. red. fl. yellow, dorsal petal red, 

 herb 3-4 M. tall"). Ibid O. Merapi 1100 M. (BÜNNEM. no. 4899, „fl. 

 yellow, bracts reddish brown"). 



The specimen collected on the Talamau (flowers preserved in spirits, 

 allows me to add some additions to the description of Schümann 's) 

 drawn from the specimen of BECCARI which I did not see. 



Tiie ligula of the uppermost leaves of the stem is 60—80 mm. long 

 (40 in the orig. sp.). The reticulate sheaths are covered with crisp hairs. 

 The adult leaves are deglabrate. The spike is obovate with a convex top. 

 The large ovate bracts are erect and appressed with a thorny point, 

 shorter than flowers, villous. The living flower is about 60 mm. long, the calyx 

 a little (+4 mm.) longer, the latter is split to above the middle, the lobe, 

 explained 15 mm. broad, convolute, not attenuate to the top, but terminated 

 by 4 unequal straight subulate teeth, very hairy below the top, 3 — 5 mm. 

 long. The coroll tube is 49 mm. long from its base to the base of lip and 

 anther, and internally constricted by a hairring below the middle, for the 

 rest giabrous. The petals are very thin linear subacute penicillate, inserted 

 ; bout the middle of the common tube, the longer dorsal petal reaching 

 to the base of the anther, the two anterior ones all but to the top of the 

 common tube. Labellum ovate about 18 mm. long and as wide at the 

 base (if explanated». Anther 12 mm. long emarginate, connective lobes 

 not produced. Style hairy, stylodes about 5 mm. long fleshy tubiform. 

 Capsule not seen. The bracteole is here of a rather rigid structure a little 

 shorter than the calyx, about half way split, dorsally compressed and 

 bicarinate, lobe bidentate each tooth being doubled by an equally long 

 apiculum. The flower-bracts are lanceolate (70 X 16) long acuminate as 

 the calyx, appressed to the flower, with an erect point. 



Plate 2. 



Fig. 1. Flower, calyx removed, n.s.— Fig. 2. Calyx, n.s.— Fig. 3, 4, 5. Bracieole, 

 n.s. — Fig. 6. Flower bract, n.s.— Fig. 7. Flower, without calyx and bracts, enl.— Fig. 

 8, Flower enveloped by calyx. — Fig. 9. Anther, enl. 



Nicolaia hemisphaerica HoRAN. 1. c— Elettaria hemisphaerica Bl. 

 En. (1827).— Phaeomeria hemisphaeriea K. SCH. I.e. Species male cognita. 



„Eletlaria foliis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis basi oblique 

 attehuatis tenuiter ciliatis, spicis elevatis hernisphaericis, bracteis exterioribus 

 vacuis patentibus obtusiusculis, interioribus (floralibus) linearibus acuminatis, 

 appressis, labello obtusiusculo." (BLUME). 



